Opportunities and limitations of using the linguistic category model as a measure of teachers' implicit stereotypes in Germany

DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2021.101501
URL:	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/...
Additional URL:	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352313991...
Document Type:	Article
Year of publication:	2021
The title of a journal, publication series:	Learning and Instruction
Volume:	78
Issue number:	Article 101501
Page range:	1-10
Place of publication:	Amsterdam [u.a.]
Publishing house:	Elsevier Science
ISSN:	0959-4752 , 1873-3263
Publication language:	English
Institution:	School of Social Sciences > Unterrichtsqualität in heterogenen Kontexten (Juniorprofessur) (Karst 2016-2022)
Subject:	370 Education
Abstract:	The current work focused on how ethnic stereotypes manifest themselves in language. The aim of our research was to investigate whether the Linguistic Category Model (LCM) is applicable to German teachers' language. More precisely, we investigated whether the categories proposed by Semin and Fiedler (1988) and mostly tested in the English-speaking world are applicable to German teachers' language and whether the pattern of Linguistic Intergroup Bias is evident in teachers' language. The analyses of two samples including in- and pre-service teachers (Study 1: N = 124, 76.6% female; Study 2: N = 104, 67.6% female) revealed difficulties in applying the LCM to German teachers' language. Further, neither of the two conducted studies found patterns of Linguistic Intergroup Bias in teachers’ language. We attribute this to a mismatch between the LCM and the German language and discuss the difficulties and limitations of applying the category system to other languages.